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I def. agree with this Julia Allison column: And DEFINITELY stop insisting that men are ‘intimidated’ by your brains and earning power. They aren’t. … “Men who perceive themselves as smart and successful are attracted to women they perceive to be smart and successful,” writes [Christine] Whelan. And yet, more than half the women surveyed […] I liked this Modern Love column too: My friends and I were talking about love, about looking for it, finding it. Elana, who was single (and Jewish), announced with utter conviction that she would never be able to live with someone who wanted a Christmas tree in his house. Others nodded in agreement. I thought […] Okay so I am getting flack from my commenters about taking girls to gay bars. Not that I do this all the time, or often, but I have done so more than once. And I’ll do it again! Here’s why. First, gay bars are more fun than straight bars. Unless you want to watch a […] Okay, so I’ve criticized online dating before as a waste of time… but my ego has been a little bit bruised lately after some stuff I don’t really want to get into. (Let’s just say I’ve been barking up a wrong tree??). So what the hell, I may as well throw my hat into the […] So I have been kinda addicted to the new Glamor dating blog, See Alyssa Date. V. interesting. I must admit I have chronicled some of my dates for my friends’ benefit since last summer’s break-up. However doing so publicly seems like a dangerous thing for a guy, I think I would get a can get […] So this paper from the MIT Sloan School of Management is kinda interesting … basically the problem with asking people about their preference for their mate is that, well, people lie. So these researchers got online dating records for about 22,000 users in San Diego and Boston and figured out people’s preferences using a sophisticated […] See? The NYT endorses my interest in fit girls. Every couple has its share of thorny issues, but when the point of tension is that one partner craves exercise and the other doesn’t, it can strain even the healthiest relationship, according to psychologists, fitness instructors and marriage therapists. Not only does the exerciser frequently cut […] I don’t watch a lot of TV but caught this 20/20 segment at the gym last night and got a kick out of it, in part because I’m friends with some married folks who work at ABC. I guess they are not new reports, they are repeats. But oh well. Here is a John Stossel […] I thought this was an interesting perspective from a 31-year-old woman’s POV on how the dating demograhics has changed as she got older: Something in the online dating-verse has changed, or perhaps the men in my demographic have changed. Where once I had little trouble meeting cute, sexy guys who wanted to make out with […] For anyone who thinks my dating standards are superficial. Okay, via via Gawker, there was this big blog contretemps today over this Forbes article headlined, “Don’t Marry Career Women.” Forbes has taken the piece down, which is kinda craven and stupid, because really, you can’t run a piece like that and NOT expect a lot of reaction. The full text is cached here but […] There was some discussion on this blog lately about dating and luck. However I do not really believe in luck when it comes to dating. Why? Because I am a guy, I have to make my own luck. Guys and girls really have very different experiences on this front I think. For example, when I […] One of my readers left a few comments accusing women of being mostly interested in money when it comes to dating. I certainly don’t think this is so but thought I would devise a quiz for my female readers if they feel so inclined to take it. Thanks to Finy, Bex and Alexis for helping […] I thought awhile back that I had said all I had to say on dating. However my last post was so popular (or at least controversial) that I have decided to say some more. So here goes. In NYC it is commonly understood that the single women vastly outnumber single men. “How can you […] So in the past few weeks I have turned 34 and attended the wedding of one of my best friend’s. This has me thinking about certain things. Here is one of my fears: that the dating market thins out as you get older, that more and more of the cool attractive single girls get “snapped […] The Post had an interesting article, reprinted from New Scientist magazine, that looked at picking a mate from a scientific perspective: As a scientist studying human behavior, I am not too surprised by the mysterious nature of how we go about choosing a partner. Mate selection is a highly complex process. We are consciously aware […] So White Dade has a post on Jewish girls that is rather opposite to mine: I think Derek Rose may have written one once, but I am hard pressed to find any praise being doled out for Jewish girls that does not involve oral sex. … I will say that I have avoided Jewish girls […] Direct from Dade County, Fla., White Dade has a great rant against New Yorkers who whine it’s “hard to meet people” here. Excuse me? Hard to meet people? No, in South Dakota it’s hard to meet people. In New York, you essentially live in a chicken coop for humans. How the fuck are you NOT […] So twice in the past month I’ve tried to explain flirting to grown men. How the hell do you explain something like that? The first time was in the comments section of T.A.B.’s blog. I understand he first started dating at age 30, so I guess his confusion isn’t surprising. The second guy, who we’ll […] Okay, so I’ve done my best to entertain y’all with my theories of who pays for dates, dating Jewish chickas, the three-day rule, and how much to spend on engagement rings. Now I feel it is time to bite off the big enchilada — sex and dating. Once Mofo, his then-g/f and I had […] |
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